Who is Kaitlyn Dunnett?

Kaitlyn Dunnett
is the pseudonym I use on my contemporary mysteries because I am better known
under my own name (Kathy Lynn Emerson) for historical mysteries, nonfiction, and
historical romances. I used a pseudonym once before, for three contemporary
category romances I wrote for Silhouette. That name was Kaitlyn (the name I'd
have given myself rather than Kathy Lynn) Gorton (my maiden name). I didn't
want to use the same pseudonym again, since these new books are mysteries, not
romances, so I kept the Kaitlyn and borrowed the surname of one of my favorite
authors, Dorothy Dunnett. I was hoping to reduce
confusion by using different names for my contemporary and my historical
mysteries, but opinion is mixed on whether this was a good idea or not. Just to
make things more complicated, I have also used yet another pseudonym, Kate
Emerson, to write non-mystery historical novels set in the Tudor era.

I live in Maine and although I am not
currently involved in things Scottish, I have been in the past. When my husband
was learning to play the bagpipes, I took up the bass drum, and we once played
in a small, rural, bagpipe band. I've since given up the drum for the pen and
my husband traded in his bagpipes for custom woodworking. He is the real-life
source for the projects "Dan Ruskin" works on in the Liss MacCrimmon
Mysteries. For more information on the jigsaw-puzzle tables he makes, click
here:

And now let me introduce you to the
inspiration for the real star of the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series,
"Lumpkin" the cat. Although described in the books as "a big
yellow tom," in reality he was buff-colored.